Comments on: Connectivity - At SBT, surfboards embedded with microchips or stamped with QR codes connect surfers with shapershttp://www.surfermag.com/blogs/design-forum/connectivity-sbt/
Surf News, Fantasy Surfer, Photos, Video and ForecastingTue, 03 Mar 2015 19:50:00 -0800hourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.3By: VOMhttp://www.surfermag.com/blogs/design-forum/connectivity-sbt/#comment-2225341
Mon, 19 May 2014 20:10:00 +0000http://www.surfermag.com/?p=229158#comment-2225341The look of desperation has many faces.
]]>By: gangbustershttp://www.surfermag.com/blogs/design-forum/connectivity-sbt/#comment-2225340
Mon, 19 May 2014 16:50:00 +0000http://www.surfermag.com/?p=229158#comment-2225340I think potentially this could be massive, shapers spend a lot of time banging out surfboards and in many instances never get to know who their customers are. Are they missing a trick? Linking surfers with a shaper can only be a good thing building a client base plus a surfboard that is registered to the owner is more secure than one without.
My mate showed his board with SBT and he scanned it with his iPhone I could every thing about the board where it was made, blank type, the whole nine yards. From what I’m reading its about shapers having footprint of the surfboards and the owner really understanding what underneath their feet and being able to communicate, if another board is needed he can orders the same board shape and identical board dimensions or make or add adjustments, and as i understand stand talking to some shapers who use it out here on the West Coast, they love it, they can actually post the cnc file if the blank was machine shaped and tag it for reference to the owner, by all account its pretty good and is only for locally shaped boards not mass production stuff from Asia, and it doesn’t cost, I will be able to use my phone and reference my boards any time, groms will luv it….anything that brings me closer to the shaper of my boards sounds like a great thing…good for surfers and shapers…I like it
]]>By: gbroagfranhttp://www.surfermag.com/blogs/design-forum/connectivity-sbt/#comment-2225311
Fri, 16 May 2014 16:37:00 +0000http://www.surfermag.com/?p=229158#comment-2225311For the tracking of a a stolen board, it has potential if there are receivers everywhere. But as a link between shapers and surfers, totally bogus. Every machine shaped blank has a saved file with all of the info about the board included. It’s is right on the hard drive of the designer.
]]>By: Flintologist Pooblishinghttp://www.surfermag.com/blogs/design-forum/connectivity-sbt/#comment-2225293
Fri, 16 May 2014 00:05:00 +0000http://www.surfermag.com/?p=229158#comment-2225293I don’t think this technology is so important to propriety of the shaper, rather the boards could be fined tuned for a particular wave, not much else. I’d like to posit a better story for the reader and it has been brewing awhile and it has to do with the pornographic entertainment industry, that is adult entertainment. She wasn’t the creme de la creme of the industry but she was smart. She had a marketing objective targeting the elit class of doctors. and found on a molecular level the still photographs could be imprinted in each individual cell face. She took all the bits of data and planted it in an adult hydrolic mechanism and sent the 100,000 or so fragmented cells of photographs viewing her naked to the scientists so the could view each one under the microscrope. Low and behold her career was revamped because each of those pictures downloaded onto harddrives were kept safely and undisclosed to the media seeking world and the scientists are happier today because of it. Now from the privacy of her home, computer applications retrieve these images and upload each still unto a media playing device for something called motion picture. Her career, for each paying customer, feasibly kept her from hooking in the underbelly and has a respectable career because of it. Thanks to all patronage she has a loving family and college fund for her children and noone really bothers this woman because not too many people that aren’t scientist use telescopes. Amen.
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